Abraham Maslow Life Quotations

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

What is life for? Life is for you.

I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.